How Many Daily Steps Do You Need To Burn Fat?
Walking is Fitness
Dave Paul
4.8 • 592 Ratings
🗓️ 6 October 2021
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Join Dave as he walks and talks about new research he recently discovered. This research tells us how many steps we need every day to better burn fat. But, that's not all. It's not just the number os steps, but how we get those steps.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi friends. Welcome to Walking is Fitness the podcast. I'm Dave. This week we're going to get real. |
| 0:09.8 | Here's the question. Do you walk to lose weight, to burn fat? Or do you walk to keep weight off that you've already lost? |
| 0:21.2 | In other words, do you walk for fitness for weight management? |
| 0:27.9 | Guess what I discovered this week. |
| 0:31.6 | Recent research that actually puts a number on how many steps you and I need to take every day to burn fat. |
| 0:42.0 | So I've talked quite a bit about the deepest why for me for fitness. |
| 0:49.8 | And that is, I want to age well. |
| 0:52.7 | I'm 61 and my grandfather lived until he was 98 and a half. |
| 0:59.5 | My dad is in really good health and he's now 86. So my DNA would point to, I've still got a few more years left. And I don't pursue fitness to add to those |
| 1:17.9 | years. I pursue fitness because I want those years to be quality. I want to be able to do the things |
| 1:24.5 | I enjoy doing. I want health freedom. And that's why I pursue fitness. But if I'm |
| 1:31.1 | being honest, there's also a component of weight management in there. And I don't mean just |
| 1:37.0 | from the perspective of health. Sure. It's healthier to have the proper weight than to be carrying extra pounds. |
| 1:46.9 | Back in my mid-40s, I'm a slender guy, always have been. |
| 1:54.6 | When I was a teenager, people kept telling me, skinny, people kept telling me how much I would appreciate my build as I got older. |
| 2:07.7 | I didn't believe them. I believe them now. I certainly do appreciate that. For me, weight has never been a primary driver for exercise. But in my mid-40s, I started to gain some weight. And I could |
| 2:25.1 | see in my grandfather and my dad and now in me that when I gain weight, it's all going to go in the middle. |
| 2:37.2 | So I'm going to have these thin arms, these thin legs, and a round middle. |
| 2:42.0 | Not a look that I aspired to, nor is it a look that I aspire to now. |
| 2:49.5 | So there's a component to all the exercise and the fitness activities that I do that is weight-related. |
| 3:01.8 | I don't want to gain weight around my middle, and it's not just for health reasons. So I get it. So here's the |
| 3:15.1 | thing. There's a number now. There's a number of steps that is recommended to burn fat. And let me |
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